News and views about the Structural Eurocodes

15 December 2011

Peter Scott (Buro Happold) is reported in a news article in New Civil Engineer (17/11/11 issue) as saying:

'With the arrival of the Eurocodes there is a need for engineers to understand geology and for geologists to understand design. Eurocode 7 demands that there is continuity and communication between the data collection, design and construction operations. This takes the industry back to how it was in the 1970s when design engineers had a broader knowledge and were less specialist'

Peter was speaking at the CIRIA (Construction Industry and Information Association) conference on geotechnical issues in construction.

04 March 2011

CIRIA is organising a half-day seminar entitled 'The structural Eurocodes: imposition or opportunity?' for 23rd March 2011. Cost is £50 to attend. Synopsis:

Structural Eurocodes are the design codes which British Standards will help to maintain and update. There are many of them for the different structural materials, each with a National Application Document (NAD) for each country in Europe. For each material code there is also a BSI Published Document (PD) which is basically a Residual Standard: There are also various guidance manuals and supplementary industry information and Eurocode design software.

When should designers make the transition to Eurocodes? Is all the material in place? How can it be accessed? Is the software ready? The afternoon will address these issues. The speakers who will be addressing the what, where, when, why and how of Structural Eurocodes, are: